Example sentences of "since [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since right up until the first census in 1801 the increase in population was not generally perceived , much contemporary comment was not qualified by this relationship . |
| 2 | At 26 , he is at the height of his powers and ranked fourth in the world , holds the unofficial title of ‘ best in the west ’ since only three former Soviets ; Kasparov , Karpov and Vassily Ivanchuk are ahead of him in the rankings . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , since only variables which are observable at the end of period t - 1 are admissible into the policy rule , these gut feelings are not allowed to have any direct impact on how , , is arrived at , although they may have an indirect influence through some other measurable variable which is admissible into the policy rule . |
| 4 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been here since 8am , and nothing . |
| 6 | She 'd set off at 2pm from TV-am , where she 'd been working since 8am on The Wide Awake Club . |
| 7 | Such monomania has been useful to warriors since long before the silicon age . |
| 8 | This happy combination has facilitated travel up and down the Nile since long before the days of the Pharaohs . |
| 9 | In relation to In-Service training , it is recognised that since so many R.E . |
| 10 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 11 | A warrant for Zhivkov 's arrest had been issued on Jan. 18 , but he was believed to have been effectively under house arrest at one of his 30 former official residences since shortly after his resignation in November 1989 . |
| 12 | By ‘ for a while ’ you mean since exactly 5.30 p.m. last Friday night . |
| 13 | We have had a support group in Bournemouth ever since just after the crash . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , since just after the war . |
| 15 | He had held the title for a year now , since just after his twenty-second birthday . |
| 16 | I had n't ridden one since just after the war . |
| 17 | He had been fighting , one way or another , since just after noon . |
| 18 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 19 | Although still in pristine condition , some of these clothes have been on hangers or in drawers here since just after the war . |
| 20 | Like many consumed by a powerful love , he has been searching since not so much for a replacement as an alternative . |
| 21 | In other words , there are differences of degree in immoral conduct ; some acts within this category may be classed as immoral liberties , since not specifically punishable by law . |
| 22 | I started off playing mid-field er and I was switched to full-back by Billy Bremner at Doncaster half way through this season , and I been playing full-back since like . |
| 23 | It 's always been Dersingham land since way back when . ’ |
| 24 | Contract discussions have been under way since early this year , according to West German sources . |
| 25 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 26 | Underlying this change in public consciousness were fundamental changes in women 's lives : family size had been shrinking since early in the century ; and more women , especially married women , were in paid work . |
| 27 | In Britain 34 per cent of women of that age were childless in 1964 , and 47 per cent in 1984 ; levels not seen since early this century . |
| 28 | Since early in 1947 the French have employed about 115,000 troops in Indo-China , with little result , since the countryside except in Laos and Cambodia remains under the firm control of the Ho Chi Minh government . |
| 29 | Russians are a Christian people — the millennium of the Orthodox church was celebrated in 1988 — speaking an East Slavic language , and they have represented the core of the Russian or Soviet state since early medieval times . |
| 30 | The bagpipes were still there , they had not played a note since yesterday afternoon . |